{"id":156041,"date":"2025-06-25T00:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/156041\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T00:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:18:10","slug":"jaguars-louis-rees-zammit-likely-headed-back-to-rugby-after-one-to-two-more-years-trying-to-make-it-in-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/156041\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars’ Louis Rees-Zammit likely headed back to rugby after ‘one to two more years’ trying to make it in NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plenty of pomp and circumstance accompanied Welsh rugby player Louis Rees-Zammit<\/a>‘s entry to the NFL world.<\/p>\n

It’s not been an easy journey, however, as Rees-Zammit’s yet to play in an NFL game since joining<\/a> the Kansas City Chiefs in the spring of 2024 and later the Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n

Thus, Rees-Zammit has imposed a deadline of sorts on his football aspirations before likely heading back to rugby.<\/p>\n

“International players get probably two to three years to make it in the NFL,” said the Jags’ Rees-Zammit in a recent interview with talkSPORT’s Hawksbee and Jacobs<\/a>. “So, I wanted to do it at a time where I maybe could come back to rugby.”<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old Rees-Zammit previously represented Wales and won the Six Nations in 2021 and played for the British & Irish Lions. As the NFL’s International Player Pathway led him to signing with the Chiefs, Rees-Zammit indicated<\/a> he’d accomplished all he wanted in the world of rugby.<\/p>\n

Now it would seem that’s not the case.<\/p>\n

“I’m 24 now, probably got one to two more years to try and make it depending on how this year goes,” he said. “I’ll be 25, 26 when I go back to rugby. I like to think I can still play at the highest level.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plenty of pomp and circumstance accompanied Welsh rugby player Louis Rees-Zammit‘s entry to the NFL world. It’s not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[1227,7,212,125,2401,213,5413,88,6,609,4267],"class_list":{"0":"post-156041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-louis-rees-zammit","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-no-minute","18":"tag-offseason-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114741137331221062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}